Cleaner Greener China

For those of you eco-warriors out there who just cannot get enough of big NGO research, here is another one for you, The World Bank’s Policy Note China: Promoting A Circular Economy (right click here). At only 33 pages, this report is one that can be read through in the time it takes to consume [...]

Roots creep underground everywhere and make a firm foundation. Shoots seem very weak, but to reach the light, they can break open brick walls. Imagine that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet. Hundreds of thousands of roots & shoots, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world, [...]

For those of you who are going to be in Shanghai September 7 and 8, I suggest you consider attending Greentech: A Call to Action, hosted by AMCHAM and Asia Society.
It is packed, and I mean PACKED, with over a 100 high caliber panelists over the 2 days (between 6-10 panelists per session), and has [...]

Two days back, the Gas 2.0 article Hoarding The Rare Earth Wealth: China May Limit Export Of Rare Elements came across my RSS. The title was one that had me immediately looking for a trade dispute in the making, but as I read through the article (and its source at Telegraph), I was puzzled [...]

Section 8 deals with the Expo itself and is broken down into a few sub chapters that deal with the site preparation, building construction, energy efficiency, and the eventual removal of pavilions. It is THE CHAPTER of importance, and if you ar just downloading the UNEP report, and want to skip to page 109 [...]

A short clip highlighting some of the work that Tony Blair and Jet LI are doing together through their groups, The Climate Group and One Foundation, to promote responsible energy consumption within 1000 villages. in China, AFrica, and India:
The 5-year project, which is a joint initiative between The Climate Group and the Jet Li One [...]

To try and boil down the “most pressing pollution problems”in China into anything bit sized is a feat on many levels, a feat Reuters felt up to the task on in their article Q+A-China’s pressing pollution problem
The article itself is interesting as it essentially tries to ask and answer the following questions in under 1000 [...]

Part 1: Air Quality
Perhaps it is because air quality is so visible, and the differences in China are so wide, environmental reports tend to start here. Devoting nearly 20 pages to the topic, I must give the authors credit for thoroughness and putting together compelling data showing that Shanghai’s efforts to improve the [...]

When speaking of barriers to sustainability the role of finance is often understated, but in their recent paper Financing Energy Efficiency in China, William Chandler and Holly Gwin of Carnegie Endowment do an excellent job of showing that in many ways the financing is as important as the technology itself… or the political negotiations that [...]

When a firm in China ends up on a list, it rarely is a good thing, a fact that Coke and Pepsi learned last week when put on Beijing’s top 12 water waster list.  see AFP article: Coca-Cola, Pepsi on Beijing’s worst polluter list: govt
It was an announcement that, given their consumption of water, did [...]